419 scam: "James Green" <jgreen8@accamail.com> RE::::

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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

This email uses a separate reply address that is different from the sender address. Spammers use this to get replies even when the original spam sending accounts have been shut down. Also, sometimes the sender addresses are legitimate looking but fake and only the reply address is actually an email account controlled by the scammers.
The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
- "dear friend" (a common phrase found in 419 scams)
- "hundred thousand us dollars" (they want you to be blinded by the prospect of quick money, but the only money that ever changes hands in 419 scams is from you to the criminals)
This email message is a next of kin scam.

Fraud email example:

From: "James Green" <jgreen8@accamail.com>
Reply-To: <jameshubert.g@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 10:45:35 -0800
Subject: RE::::

Dear Friend,

In my department I discovered an abandoned sum of US$20.5m Dollars(
TWENTY MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND US

DOLLARS) in an account that belongs to one of our foreign customer (
Mr.MOISE SABA MASRI he is a Jewish business mogul From Mexico) Who died
along with his entire family

in 2010 in a helicopter crash. Mr Saba was 47 years old when both his
wife,his only son Avraham (Albert)and his daughter-in-law died in a
helicopter crash.

You can get more information's as regards to the crash and the death of
our customer Mr. Moises Saba on the site web address below.

(http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-3832556,00.html?)

Since we got information about his death, we
have been expecting his next of kin or relation to the deceased as
indicated in our banking guidelines and laws but

unfortunately we discover that all his supposed next of kin or relation
died alongside with him at plane crash leaving nobody behind for the
claim.

It is therefore upon this discovery that I decided to make this business
proposal to you and release the money to you as the next of kin or
relation to the deceased for

safety and subsequent disbursement since nobody is coming up for it and
I don't want this money to go into the bank treasury as unclaimed bill.

Trusting to hear from you immediately for more explanations.

Jmaes

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SIR,

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